Wasserman Schultz on Women’s History Month

As we put more cracks in the glass ceiling, women continue to provide inordinate hope and healing to our communities and nation. From upon their broad shoulders, no challenge is impossible.

For generations, women have been our vital caregivers, teachers, and justice-seekers, and on this Women’s History Month, we celebrate these valiant and unheralded frontline fighters who heal and infuse our communities with nourishing hope. This once-in-a-century pandemic underlined just how critical women’s work really is – both on and off the clock, and especially from women of color. This ‘hidden engine’ keeps our economy turning.

Throughout history, and still today, this work goes underappreciated, overlooked and, too often, unpaid. So, as before, we still fight for seats at the table, for equal pay and fair working conditions, and the right to safe and accessible reproductive health care.

As we honor women who made today’s opportunities and ongoing movement for justice possible, we must also support and lift those building a better tomorrow right now. President Biden’s nomination of Kentanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court blazes yet another trail. This historic nomination will inspire countless girls to reach higher, especially in marginalized communities where women’s work, leadership, and vision still go unrewarded or unrecognized.

As we put more cracks in the glass ceiling, women continue to provide inordinate hope and healing to our communities and nation. From upon their broad shoulders, no challenge is impossible.